Vehicle wheel-rim.



R. 'W. DICK-- VEHICLE WHEEL RIM. APPLICATION FIL'ED MAR. 16. I914.

1,157,156. Patented 0 1. 19, 1915.

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RALIPH W. DICK, OF FORT WAYNE, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO LOUIS 'RASTETTER 8t SON, A COIPARTNERSHI]? EXISTING BETWEEN ELIZABETH BAS'IETTER AND WILLIAM G. RASTETTER, BOTH 013 FORT WAYNE, INDIANA.

VEHICLE WHEEL-RIM.

Application filed March 16, 1914. Serial No. 824,880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RALPH W. DICK, a

resident of Fort Wayne, in the county of Allen and State of Indiana, have invented 7 is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in vehicle wheel rims of that class consisting of a wooden rim having around itsperiphcry a rim'of metal, and which are used in conjunction with pneumatic tires.

The object of the improvement is to efiectively secure the ends of the metal rim at their meeting place to the wooden rim, and to provide means for protecting the valve stem of the pneumatic tire from becoming injured by contact with edges of the metal rim where itpasses therethrough.

The object of the improvement is accomplished by the construction illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a plan view of apart of the rim at the meeting place of the ends of the metal rim; Fig. 2 is a side View of- Fig. 1, shown partly in section; and, Fig. 3 is a detail view in perspective showing a section through the wooden rim at the aperture made therein for the valve stem and show-' ing one end of the metal rim as it appears pressed into place.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views, and referring now to the same: A 1s a rim of metal formed'to receive a pneumatic tire, and (B) and (C) are respectively its meeting ends. The rim shown in the drawings is of a transverse form adapted to receive a tire of that kind known as the clencher type. However, this invention applies equally well to such rims as are made for other types of tires.

' (D) 'is a wooden rim' made in the usual manner shaped toreceive in its outer perimeter the metal rim above referred to.

The invention consists of the manner of securing the ends of the metal rim about the wooden rim and the provision of a metallic shield for the stem of the tire.

(The wooden rim (D) has an opening (E) made therein through whichthe stem of the tire (not shown) is adapted to be extended when the tire is in place,fand the-metal rim (A) is'placed around the outer periphery of the rim with its ends (C) and (B) extend- Specification of Letters Patent. Patented flct, 19', 1915.

ing over the opening-(E). Those portions F'G, respectively, of the ends of the metal: lic rim are then pressed into the opening so as to conform correspondingly with the adjacent sides thereof, and an eyelet of metal is forced into the opening, its flanged upper end (J) binding the ends of the metal rim down against the wooden rim and the barrel portion of the eyelet holding theinwardly bent portions FG of the rim against the sides of the opening. The lower end of the eyelet is crimped over the adjacent surface of the wooden rim at the lower end of the opening. Thus the ends of the metallic rim;v is permanently held fast to the wooden rim, and the eyelet afiords a downwardly into the openingagainst the adjacent wall thereof; and an eyelet extending through the opening, and holding the downwardly pressed portion of each end of the metallic rim in place.

2. A rim for wheels consisting of a wooden rim and an outer metallic rim extending around the former, and an eyelet extending through the wooden rim at the juncture of the ends of the metallic rim and securing the respective meeting ends.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

a RALPH W. DICK. Witnesses: v

MATHILDA METTLER, W. BURNS.

copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner of Patents.

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